The Guardian refuses to publish Steve Bell's cartoon about Netanyahu on grounds of "anti-Semitism", days later fires cartoonist

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TR: "Gaza residents, get out now" The Guardian has reportedly refused to publish this cartoon by its cartoonist Steve Bell featuring Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on the grounds that the piece perpetuated an anti-Semitic trope. In the scene, a boxing-gloved Netanyahu proceeds to remove the map of the Gaza Strip from

The Guardian censors a cartoon on Jeremy Corbyn

The Guardian censors a cartoon on Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn apologising At least that is what its author, the cartoonist Steve Bell, claims. The cartoon in question, dated 25 November and entitled whipslah, appears on the cartoonist's page next to this text: "Spiked because it made someone at the Guardian "feel uncomfortable". This is the first time that a cartoon has

The Guardian cartoonist criticises paper for its "mysterious editorial line" on anti-Semitism after rejecting cartoon

The Guardian cartoonist criticises paper for its "mysterious editorial line" on anti-Semitism after rejecting cartoon

Steve Bell's third in a series of five strips, which The Guardian declined to publish. The strip alludes to Tom Watson's recent criticism of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's handling of allegations of anti-Semitism within the party. Corbyn's supporters, however, accuse his political opponents of launching a witch-hunt against him to fulfil a political